JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian authorities said Thursday they helped more than 170 climbers who were caught a day earlier by Mount Semeru’s sudden eruption to return to safety as the seismic ...

A powerful volcanic eruption in Indonesia sent residents fleeing as Mount Semeru released a towering ash column and pyroclastic flow - a fast-moving, superheated cloud of dense volcanic gas, ash and ...

On November 19, 2025, Mount Semeru, the tallest volcano in Java, erupted violently at 4:00 PM local time. The eruption sent a massive column of ash shooting two kilometers into the sky and created ...

The eruption pushed the ash cloud to an estimated altitude of 6,676 metres above sea level. The plume quickly drifted toward the south-east, ...

JAKARTA: Mount Semeru in Indonesia's East Java province erupted on Tuesday evening (March 10), sending an ash column about 1,000 metres above its summit, the country's volcanology agency said.

Indonesian officials say several volcanoes have shown increased activity lately, with eruptions occurring and residents encouraged to remain alert.

Dozens of people have died, hundreds are missing and many more homes were destroyed after separate volcanic eruptions in ...

Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano spewed a column of ash 1,640 feet into the sky in the longest eruption since the explosive collapse of the island caused a deadly tsunami in 2018, scientists said ...